My Year Of Rest And Relaxation 1st Ottessa Moshfegh by Ottessa Moshfegh 9781784877477, 1784877476 instant download after payment.

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes

It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life - Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn't just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. 

"[My Year of Rest and Relaxation] serves as a reminder that there is something to life outside of the economic exchange of time for money and money for goods, even if that unnamed thing is obscure and perplexing and just a bit monstrous—particularly in a woman. Literature may not have all the answers, but it can show us the power and allure of saying 'No.' "  -  Alexandra Kleeman, Vanity Fair

Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate - dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 - My Year Of Rest and Relaxation is a showcase for the gifts of one of America's major young writers.